Book IX, Chapter 12

"Ten Dragons Protector!" Liu Lei muttered, "Nine Dragons Buckle!" Lian Feng added: "Moreover, this Nine Dragons Buckle is of little use to other monks, because it must be activated by the Nine Heavens Divine Fire triggered by your zombies, so no one has been looking for this special magic weapon for two thousand years." "And how did you find it?" said Liu. "Because I went to Tibet a while ago, and I happened to find its traces!" Lian Feng said: "But I didn't get it - I only saw a photo at the time, an antiquities smuggler took a photo to find a buyer, but the thing was in the hands of a tomb robber." I saw the photo and he found the place when it had already been sold. I've been looking for a long time, and I recently found out that it had been smuggled abroad, and now it's in France!"

"So you're in France?" Mr. Liu said. "Yes......" Lian Feng said: "It just so happens that you are in France, and it will save trouble." Liu Lei was a little moved and said: "Then you have been looking for clues these days?" Lian Feng nodded, Liu Lei said reproachfully: "Then why don't you tell me, I'll look for it with you, I have a lot of connections here, it will be a lot more convenient!" Lian Feng smiled and said: "Because I'm not sure I will be able to find it, or don't tell you first, if you can't find it, you won't be so disappointed!" "So, you've found it?" Liu Lei said excitedly. Lian Feng smiled and nodded: "I just found it, it's in Paris City!" "Where is it?" Liu Lei asked anxiously. Lian Feng said: "In an underground auction market - tonight, the Kowloon buckle will be auctioned off in that market, you just need to prepare the money!"

Most of the items auctioned in the underground auction market are very precious, but they are all smuggled by tomb robbers or cultural relics theft groups from various countries. These treasures are auctioned here, and no one knows who bought them, and they are very popular with some of the aristocracy, because it is convenient and it will not cause so much trouble to buy something that comes from the wrong place. So even though it's just an underground auction market, all the people who come here are dignitaries, rich people, everyone wears masks, and no one can recognize each other, just hold up their cards and bid. But such a place is difficult for strangers to enter without regular customers.

Liu Lei came to Kerry, and he knew that Kerry often went to these places. "Eighty-one Street?" Kerry frowned and said, "Yes, I go there a lot, and most of the decorations in my room are bought from there, a very good place, but what are you going to do there?" Liu Lei said: "What are you going to do, we will naturally go to do it." "Shopping?" Kerry wondered, "When did you improve your taste and understand the joy of collecting?" "I've always been very tasteful!" Liu Lei said angrily: "Look around, which thing is more valuable than your room!" Liu Leiyun pointed like a fly, and looked around wildly. Kerry said unremittingly: "Cut! As far as these things are concerned, in the eyes of a real collector, they are not works of art at all, just some ancient devices that are a little older, without any representativeness, and no artistic value!" Liu Lei was furious, these were the capital that he proudly showed off to the third order of the Druid Order, and he shocked the barbarian at the time, and now it is so worthless as Kerry said. He jumped up and wanted to rush up, Lian Feng grabbed him, Liu Lei didn't dare to compete with the master, and shouted angrily: "Xiao tired!" The Tibetan mastiff, who was lying on the ground and wilting, stood up "poof", his ears were straight up, and his eyes were fierce and glanced around, Kerry was suddenly frightened, and waved his hand again and again and said: "Forget it, let's talk about it, don't let dogs bite people, if you always do this, tomorrow I will inform the people of the African branch to send me an African lion!"

Liu sat down tiredly, and said to Kerry in anger: "Take us tonight!" Kerry suddenly felt that the opportunity was not to be lost, and looked at his finger and said: "Why should I take you in? I am responsible for introducing new members, and if something goes wrong, I will be responsible for the auction house...... We don't know each other very well, who knows ...... you" Liu's tired teeth itched, he naturally knew what Kerry wanted to do, together for such a long time, Kerry pouted his ass and he knew what shit to pull, he was unwilling to squeeze out a few words from between his teeth: "Everything tonight, I will pay the bill!" Kerry immediately stood up and said quickly: "Okay, everything is okay, I will go out for my friend! I will come down to you at eight o'clock tonight!"

Kerry went upstairs "Tengteng", Liu Lei gritted his teeth below, Bai Fan and Nia covered their mouths and smiled.

Night was approaching soon, Liu Lei, Lian Feng and Kerry had a simple dinner, and the three of them drove a black car, without a retinue, and drove out of the villa in a very low-key manner and drove towards the city. Paris is full of lights at night, and the bustling modern city is rich in nightlife. The streets are full of people, and under the flashing neon lights, it is another sleepless night of losing money. Kerry drove through the busiest part of the city, not stopping all the way north. Liu Lei asked strangely: "Where is it?" Lian Feng shook his head and said that he didn't know, although he got the news, he had not been to the auction house in person.

Kerry whistled and drove leisurely, and he didn't seem to hear Liu Lei's words at all, but asked Liu Lei: "You said that we are so leisurely now, but the trouble you created made Hackman and Kontat not sleep for a few nights, right?" Liu Lei said: "That's their responsibility - didn't you see them wandering around leisurely when I fulfilled my duty?" Kerry shook his head: "But I remember the last time you fulfilled your responsibility to be the Pope, Hackman seemed to be wiping your ass- Rebuild the Papal Palace, which you have destroyed in a fit of rage!"

Hackman hadn't slept for days now, and he was in some trouble. The original agreement with Liu Lei was to make Cantatt the pope, and he was also very optimistic about Cantat. But now, the rivals are strong, and although Kontat has his backing, it is clear that his prestige alone is no longer able to resist the fierce offensive of his opponents. To be honest, he is very good at defending the dignity of the Holy See and charging into battle, but it is not his specialty to engage in political struggles like this, and he has been anxious these days, not only planning the Pope's funeral, but also fighting for the new Pope for Cantat, and he feels that he really can't cope with it.

Having just finished dealing with the ceremonial clothing used in the funeral ceremony, Hackman leaned back in his chair for a while, closed his eyes and recuperated. Kontat walked in quietly, and Hackmar asked, "Is there anything wrong?" Kontat said, "I think, maybe you chose the wrong person......" Hackman looked at him puzzled: "Now we are in a very bad situation, I know you are very difficult, maybe you can achieve your wish by changing a supporter, I have no hope - you are different from others, you have a high prestige in the Holy See, even now, no matter who you re-support, you will be very popular!" "No!" Hackman said: " I don't go back to betraying my allies, maybe I'm not fit for these jobs, but someone can handle it all. I believe that Liu can give us some help, some powerful help. Don't worry, he'll take care of it, and with his help we can make it a lot easier!"

When Hackman's call came, Liu Lei had just finished discussing a leisurely question with Kerry, he took out his mobile phone to look at the number, and couldn't help but smile dumbly and said: "This person, I really don't think about it......" He opened the phone and put it next to his ear, although he ruined a mobile phone last time, but the number was not changed. The new mobile phone was "tributed" by a member of the Dark Society, which deals in digital products, and it can be said that it is three years ahead of the whole world in mobile phone technology, and its power can compete with computers.

"Hey!" Liu Lei said to the phone: "Hello, old friend, have been happy lately, without the Pope who always looks at you dazzlingly, I guess you must be as comfortable as a bird!" Hackman said honestly over there: "No, my dear friend, it's too bad here, if you don't help me again, I'm afraid I'll regret telling you that I can't fulfill our agreement!" "What's the matter?" Liu Lei frowned and asked, "What's going on over there?" Hackman said: " Cantat's qualifications are too shallow, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to ascend to the throne and become the next pope!" "Even with your support, can't you?" asked Liu Lei. "No......," replied Hackman, "no one wants to be on our side......" "But you have saved so many bishops, they should support you?" said to him. "I'm going!" Hackman's tone was full of helplessness: "They said they were very grateful for my saving grace, and they said they would repay me, but not Kontat!" Liu Lei said angrily: "These bastards! I should have known that politics is always so mercenary and ungrateful! I should have known - both in secular society and in the church!"

Hackman said, "Liu, we need your help!" I know you can do it, you came up with the way to make Cantat the cardinal, and now you must have a way to put him in the pope's seat!" "Okay, okay, let me think about it, I will help you......" Liu Ti agreed.

"Hackman!" Liu Lei said to the call, "Tell me, how many candidates are there?" Hackman replied. "Okay, three, great!" Liu Lei then asked, "Is there a big difference in strength between the two?" Hackman thought for a moment and said, "There is a certain gap, but it's not so outrageous!" "Okay, this is better!" Liu Lei said happily: "Hackman, listen, I have a way!" "What way?" Hackman asked. "We have an old Chinese saying: "When the snipe and the clam compete, the fisherman wins!" You are really the least favored faction now, and you can just hide in the dark and watch the play. Find a way to provoke the two factions to fight, and then stand up when they are both defeated, so that the Pope's crown will be put on Cantat's head at the end!" Hackman said happily, "Well, it is a good idea!" But soon his new question arises: "How do you get the two factions to fight?"

Liu Lei gave him a tip: "There are many ways to do this: for example, if you find someone to attack the church of the supporters of one side of the two factions, disguised as an attack by the Dark Society, but leave a flaw in an inconspicuous place, it can be seen that it is actually done by the other side. Another example is arranging for the newspapers of both of them to report each other's scandals...... Anyway, let them hate each other and attack each other, so that they don't have time to care about you—in fact, you just have to pick one of them!" "Okay, okay......" said Hackman, "I see, thank you, Liu, you are such a genius!"

Hanging up the phone, Liu Lei complained: "Uncle Hackman is good at everything, but there are too few ditches and channels in the cerebral cortex, sandpipers and mussels compete, and fishermen benefit, this is the only way for a weak third party to win in the competition......" "It's here!" Kerry interrupted Liu Lei's complaints. "Arrived?" Liu Lei looked out the window, an old and old European-style villa stood lonely on the side of the road, a light was lit in the attic of the villa, and the whole villa could no longer see any light. "Is this here?" asked Kerry, pointing to the villa. "That's right!" said Kerry, "there it is—Eighty-One Street." "Here, how do you look like the territory of our blood clan, not like a normal human being?" Liu Lei was very strange. Kerry excused himself: "Because it's not normal here!"

There was not a single guard at the gate of Eighty-one Street, and Liu Lei believed that people with no purpose would never come here, just because of the gloomy situation here, he was so scared that he peed his pants before he reached the door—it was useless to arrange guards for a purpose. Kerry walked to the door, reached out and pushed the door open, and walked in with Liu Lei and Lian Feng. Inside, a dark passage leads underground. Kerry walked down, Liu Lei and Lian Fenggen behind him. After turning a few corners in the passage, an iron gate made of black iron was revealed, and two uniformed security guards stood next to the iron gate. The security guard was obviously very familiar with Kerry, and when he saw him coming, he didn't need to verify his identity, he directly took out three masks from a cabinet next to him and handed them to Kerry, Kerry took them, distributed them to Lian Feng and Liu Lei and said, "Put it on!" The security guard opened the iron door with both hands, and a ray of light radiated from the iron door and shone on their bodies.

Although the world in the iron gate is infinitely bright, but it is still very quiet, only the companions who come with each other whisper to each other, Kerry took Liu Lei and Lian Feng to find a seat near the booth and sat down, Liu Lei saw that the back was full, but there were still many empty seats in front of the booth, he was very strange, and asked Kerry: "Why don't everyone sit in front?" Kerry whispered to him: "Sitting in front is easy to reveal your identity." In addition, this is the rule, but the people who come to take a look sit in the back, and the people who sit in the front are the first to get the news and have a goal to buy something - this is also a way to show determination, and buy what you want at the risk of revealing your identity, so that there will be fewer people competing with you. ”

The underground auction usually starts at nine o'clock, and Liu Lei looks at the Cartier watch on his wrist, which is less than ten minutes away. In the last ten minutes, the front row, which had been empty, was suddenly full, and it seemed that everyone did not get the news until the last minute. To Liu Lei's right, there were Lian Feng and Kerry, and to his left sat a woman wrapped in a black tweed trench coat, Liu Lei felt a strange fluctuation in her body, and he concluded that this strange woman was not an ordinary person, but this had nothing to do with his purpose today, he was not an ordinary person, he could come as well as others.

The auction began shortly. The auctioneer, dressed in a gilded collar gown, walked up to the booth, picked up a mallet and struck it and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the 1,754th auction on Eighty-One Avenue begins now!" He paused for a moment, then said, "Now, let's take a look at our first lot of the day." A staff member brought up a tray with a piece of silk on top of it, and the top of the satin quilt was bulging, and I don't know what was covered underneath. The tray was placed on the booth, the auctioneer unveiled the silk, and an exclamation sounded in the hall, Liu Lei stared at the tray and praised it sincerely: "It's so beautiful!" On the tray is a princess crown made of white gold, the whole princess crown is a ring made of white gold, the front is densely covered with tiny diamonds, and the top is the superposition of two layers of silver rings, each two silver rings intersect with a soybean-sized diamond decoration, and at the top is three slightly larger diamonds gathered together. The entire princess crown sparkles in the light, making it look fresh and refined.

The auctioneer introduced: "This is the crown of the princess of a national dynasty that has just been unearthed in Eastern Europe recently, and as for which dynasty, we will tell its ultimate owner in detail." The whole crown was cast in pure white gold, and was set with one hundred and thirty small diamonds, totaling about twenty carats, eleven large diamonds, totaling about thirty-five carats, and the three largest diamonds, each of which was more than five carats. Now, please auction it, the reserve price of this crown is five million euros!" As soon as the auctioneer's voice fell, someone immediately raised a sign: "Five and a half million!" "Six million!" and "Six million and three hundred thousand......

Kerry stretched out his hand and stabbed Liu Lei and whispered, "How is it, not tempted?" Liu Lei said: "Her beauty has conquered everyone, how can she not be tempted?" "Then why don't you bid?" Liu Lei smiled bitterly: "Who will you buy it back for?" Kerry was also dumbfounded, Lian Feng snickered on the side, Kerry choked for a long time and suddenly said: "Buy it and give it to your daughter in the future!" Liu Lei looked gloomy, smiled miserably and said to Kerry: "Have you ever seen a vampire give birth?" Kerry was a little apologetic, he didn't think of this for a while, just poked a sore spot in Liu Lei's heart, he comforted Liu Lei: "Not necessarily ......" He said casually, Liu Lei suddenly thought of what Cain said to him last time, the heart of the blood clan can actually beat, so maybe the blood clan can also have their own children? Thinking about it, a happy smile appeared on the corner of Liu Lei's mouth, and he raised the sign in his hand: "Ten million!"

The audience was shocked, although this crown is beautiful, but each diamond is not very big, even if its historical value and artistic value are counted, it is worth at most eight million, Liu Lei quoted 10 million in one bite, which is very surprising. Kerry's head was a little short-circuited for a while, this guy was so sure not to sell it just now, and he also looked "very hurt", and in the blink of an eye, he spilled out 10 million! Kerry reacted for a long time, and suddenly decided in his heart that he would never be able to believe Liu Lei's expression in the future. Liu Lei shouted out 10 million, and immediately fell back from his dream to reality, and immediately regretted his intestines - let's not talk about whether he can have offspring or not, but this crown is not worth 10 million and has already wasted 2 million in vain; besides, even if his heart can beat in the future, it is not certain whether he can have his own offspring, if not, it is a waste of 10 million! This is all money!

At the booth, the auctioneer's face was red--it is not easy to meet such a wronged leader--he held a gavel and asked loudly: "Ten million, ten million! This gentleman quoted a price of ten million! Is there anything higher?" Liu Lei looked bitter under the booth, and the auctioneer began to count down: "Ten million for the first time, ten million for the second time, ten million for the third time, ! Deal! Ten million!" Everyone let out a regretful sigh, and Liu Lei leaned heavily on the back of the chair.

"Here's the second lot of the day!" said the auctioneer, who brought up a tray again, covered with a piece of silk. The auctioneer said, "The second lot tonight is a meteorite!" he lifted the satin, and a dark irregular meteorite lay on the tray. "This meteorite contains rare metal elements, and there is more than one kind! Get this meteorite, you may discover new chemical elements, and it will be easy to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry!" The eyes of the crowd were full of anticipation, and the auctioneer glanced at everyone, and the reaction of the crowd was obviously very satisfied with the effect: "Okay, the reserve price of this meteorite is 3 million euros! Now the auction begins!"

Liu Lei is not interested in any meteorite, he doesn't care about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he is still suffering from the 10 million flesh he wasted just now, and he doesn't care about the auction of meteorites at all. A voice sounded on his right: "Five million!" Liu Lei was surprised, and when he looked sideways, it turned out to be Lian Feng! He was inexplicable, and he realized in the next year that the metal elements in the meteorite might be the best raw materials for making weapons. Obviously, people in the world cannot escape the word fame and fortune, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry can make people win the respect of the whole world! Even if you are chemically illiterate, buy a meteorite, find a chemist to cooperate, and carry your name on the results, then you will glorify your ancestors! Soon the price broke through the 10 million mark, and the auctioneer was full of excitement and shouted continuously, and soon a higher price was thrown, and the person who threw this higher price was Lian Feng, who was sitting next to Liu Lei: "Fifteen million!" Suddenly, the whole venue fell silent, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is very popular, but it will not be ruined for it. "Fifteen million, fifteen million, is there anything higher? Is there a higher one? Fifteen million first, fifteen million second, fifteen million third, deal!" "Bang!" The gavel fell, and Lian Feng got the meteorite as he wished. Lian Feng said to Liu Lei embarrassedly: "I'm really sorry, the apprentice let you break the bank!" Liu Lei was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted, and said again and again: "No, no, master, you are too polite, too polite...... With this meteorite, you can refine the best magic weapon, right?"

Lian Feng shook his head: "I didn't plan to use it to refine magic weapons. "Don't plan to?" Liu Lei said strangely: "Then what do you want him to do? Don't you really want to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?" Lian Feng actually nodded: "I want the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but I don't want to take it, but to others." "To someone else?!" Liu Lei shouted: "You don't have a fever, do you? Why are you talking nonsense?" Lian Feng slapped him on the head and scolded: "Nonsense!" Lian Feng sighed with emotion: "China does not have a Nobel laureate yet, and now there is an opportunity in front of me - although I am a monk, I do not eat the fireworks of the world, and I jump out of the Three Realms, but I really hope that my country can raise its eyebrows in the world!"

Liu Lei looked at Lian Feng, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart, his reverence for his master and his expectation for the motherland were intertwined, and he couldn't tell what it was like. He didn't say anything, and Kerry said, "People like you actually have the concept of a country?" Lian Feng smiled: "Aren't you the same, why don't you stay in France for so long and not move your nest?" Kerry smiled: "It's also ...... to say"

As they were talking, suddenly the attention of the three of them shifted to the booth, and on the booth, a staff member walked up to the booth with the third auction item of the night, and they felt the extraordinaryness of the third exhibit at the same time, and a strange energy emanated from under the covered satin. "Is it it?" Liu Lei asked softly, Lian Feng shook his head: "No, it's not this breath." As soon as the auctioneer lifted the satin, everyone in the hall exclaimed in unison, and on the tray, a purple crystal ball with a diameter of ten centimeters was placed on a wooden shelf!

"Ah!" A soft cry came from Liu Lei's side, Liu Lei turned his head, the mysterious woman beside him stretched out his hand to cover his mouth, Liu Lei suddenly realized that the faint strange energy fluctuations on this woman's body were exactly the same as the purple crystal ball on the booth! It seems that this mysterious woman is coming for this crystal ball today.

Separated from the three of them, a woman in a mask went crazy, she reached out and pulled a man sitting next to her, screaming uncontrollably: "Oh my God, dear, this is it, the mysterious amethyst ball! Legend has it that it has the mysterious effect of keeping the face ageless!God, dear, I want it, I want it......" The man next to him grabbed her and said, "Okay, dear, it will belong to you!" The man comforted her repeatedly, and the woman finally sat down quietly. The auctioneer smiled slightly: "This lady has already said it, so I don't need to introduce it, let's start bidding! The reserve price is seven million!" "Eight million!" The woman was the first to call out just now. "Nine million!" ...... "ten million!" ...... "twelve million!" ...... The price rises rapidly, but no matter who pays how high the price, she will be pressed down by the crazy woman, every time the price is successful, she will frantically report to the man next to her, I believe that if it weren't for the mask obstruction, she must have kissed it! The price has been increased to 20 million by the woman, almost all the competitors have withdrawn, the woman saw that the coveted treasure was about to arrive, and shouted excitedly, at this time a voice sounded from Liu Lei's side, although soft but clear into the ears of everyone present: "30 million!"

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